Description: He is a husky man, who wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Heward lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver pearl (40 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Courier

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He is typically in his Shepherd uniform. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. Adam is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Adam was born with his mother's beautiful face. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shepherd. He tends to his Shepherd job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Job, Family, Attractive. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1800 gp. Black pearl (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Ernest speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 14000 sp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Philantrophist, Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp).